One of the features of organic farming is not to make use of chemical synthetic products. It is not a suggestion, but a total prohibition included in the disciplinary of the biological. All chemical plant protective products as well as fertilizers of both chemical and/or mineral origin cannot be used. However, in the case of a vineyard, all most important elements for the nutrition of the plant, such as nitrogen, phosphorous and potassium are removed every year. With the harvest first, followed by the loss of foliage, with the green and winter pruning, there is a constant decrease of the plant nutritional substances.
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Organic wine: our new challenge
In a few days a new love story, as I call it, will start. Because you have to
be really fond of this job to face all the challenges and problems that may
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The Winter pruning of the vine
This is the time when most plants start to be pruned. This verb comes from
the Latin word putare, which means to clean, remove the old parts to give
space to the new ones. I like this definition very much because
